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For those who consider September 1st as their New Years Day - what do you want to achieve in the final month of August? 🍂🎃❄️🎄🎆

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hotmumshit · 30/07/2026 16:20

The end of the summer will soon be upon us ladies and gents!

I want August to be a really good month. I want to be in a good place going into September, able to enjoy my home in the run up to Christmas!

I want autistic dd to be in a routine, ready to start her new school. I want dcat to be happy, as currently she hates the heat.

I want to be firmly on my weight loss journey.

You? 💕

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hotmumshit · 30/07/2026 16:49

Boreded · 30/07/2026 16:34

I have never thought about this before. But…

  1. I want to have hit my 50 weight loss goal before my holiday (30th August)
  2. I want my son to have been offered a degree level apprenticeship OR failing that, him be ready to for Uni and the hard work that comes with that
  3. I want to have started being more spontaneous. I don’t leave the house often enough, and have become old before my time. I need to go to the pub, cinema, seaside, all on a whim, rather than having to have it planned a week in advance.

Love this, especially no. 3

Nothing I do is spontaneous! Is ds your youngest? Now he is 18, this kind of life is possible!

Heres hoping numbers 1 and 2 work out for you

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hotmumshit · 30/07/2026 16:44

UpDownAllAround1 · 30/07/2026 16:30

Enjoy the long hot summer into September ideally

No this is incorrect, you should be whinging and counting down the days xox

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Boreded · 30/07/2026 16:34

I have never thought about this before. But…

  1. I want to have hit my 50 weight loss goal before my holiday (30th August)
  2. I want my son to have been offered a degree level apprenticeship OR failing that, him be ready to for Uni and the hard work that comes with that
  3. I want to have started being more spontaneous. I don’t leave the house often enough, and have become old before my time. I need to go to the pub, cinema, seaside, all on a whim, rather than having to have it planned a week in advance.
UpDownAllAround1 · 30/07/2026 16:30

Enjoy the long hot summer into September ideally

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